Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Over the years, as I have written on culture and race, I have had to write on two fronts. In order to engage with the MSNBC-approved narrative, I need to engage with the Black Lives Matter kind of evil, which is all the thing these days. It is evil and popular with the cool kids. …
Introduction: A few weeks ago, Thabiti contributed to our ongoing discussion of the presidential election and race relations with this post. I responded briefly here, and promised to say more about it later on. It is now later on, and so here I am. Productive Discussions: Thabiti said that he and I manage to have …
Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches by Baird My rating: 4 of 5 stars A helpful compendium of historical Reformed liturgies, and their genealogical connections. The author Baird, given the nature of his subject, is not exactly a barrel of laughs, but he does have a little bit of fun with the high …
The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1 by Thomas Reid My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really informative. Reid was the road not taken, and subsequent centuries paid a heavy price for it. The founder of the sturdy Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Reid attempted to transplant plain sense into the vagaries of philosophy. Unfortunately, the …
If I might, I would like to begin with a set of bundled quotations. The first is from The Pilgrim’s Progress, the second from John Buchan’s trilogy of books, The 39 Steps, Mr. Standfast, and Greenmantle, and the third from a few places in Scripture. Please bear with me for just a moment. First, John …
“Athanasius had to stand contra mundum, and it is he who is the representative man from that era and not the whole world he had to contend against” (Writers to Read, p. 21).
“Loving something while being unwilling to fight for it would be better categorized as lust” (Writers to Read, p. 20).
Introduction: Rachel Held Evans has recently argued that a vote for Hillary Clinton is not inconsistent with a pro-life ethic. There are any number of confusions involved in how she presents the case, but I am going to try to limit myself to addressing just three of them. I want to limit what I say …
“The problem is not with the word worldview. The problem is with what we naturally tend to think of as our eyes. Of course, blindness is not a worldview, and it is an improvement if we move from that blindness to coherent thoughts that we think. A brainview is better than blindness. But the real …
For many years, one of the things I have most liked to do is stick up for Puritans. If there is ever a contest for “most misrepresented” groups within the history of Christendom, the Puritans will certainly be in the final four, and would probably win the championship. Caricatured as stuffy, priggish, censorious, prim, prudish …
